Heart Failure Clinical Nurse specialist

VerseOne Group; Chelmsford; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Part time

Job summary

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist to join the Heart Failure team. The role focuses on delivering high-quality, evidence-based care for patients admitted with heart failure, guiding care pathways and reducing hospital length of stay.

You will lead education, training and audit initiatives, providing expert advice within a multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes and drive service excellence across all areas of heart failure care.

Qualifications

• BSc Nursing qualification and registration.
• Non-medical prescriber status required.
• Specialist cardiac course or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Promote excellent practice trust-wide in the assessment, diagnosis and management of heart failure patients, working autonomously as a core member of the cardiac team.
• Act as liaison between the Acute Medical Team, Cardiologists, Nurses and MDT to ensure timely review and optimize HF care.
• Participate in setting up and running nurse-led HF clinics and contribute to service development.
• Prescribe appropriate medications as a non-medical prescriber, adjust treatment plans, and continuously evaluate patient care quality.

Education

Bsc Nursing

Non-medical prescriber

Specialist cardiac course

Job description

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is one of the biggest trusts in the country, following the merger of Mid Essex, Basildon and Southend hospitals in April 2020.

Main area cardiology Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (On-site working only; some after school hours clinic availability required) Job ref 390-CTC-BR-1942

Site Broomfield Town chelmsford Salary £49,387 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time) Salary period Yearly Closing 08/10/2026 23:59

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the onlyacute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.

Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.

We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated professional to join our dedicated Heart Failure team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist. In this pivotal role, you will have ongoing responsibility for delivering a high-quality, evidence-based service for patients admitted with heart failure, ensuring they follow the right care pathway and helping to reduce hospital length of stay.

You will play a key part in shaping clinical practice, delivering both national and local priorities, and leading education, training, and audit initiatives. Empowered to make advanced clinical decisions, you’ll provide expert advice and support to colleagues, working closely with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients.

Collaboration is at the heart of this role — you’ll work in partnership with patients, their families, and healthcare professionals across all areas, ensuring a seamless, compassionate, and effective service.

If you’re passionate about driving service excellence in heart failure care and have the skills to inspire and influence at all levels, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Promote excellent practice trust-wide in the assessment, diagnosis and management of patients who develop, or are admitted with HF, practising autonomy as a core member of the cardiac team and wider MDT to reduce Length of Stay.
• Act as a liaison between the Acute Medical Team, Cardiologists, Nurses and MDT ensuring timely review of HF patients, including advice, and requesting of specific tests and appointments.
• Participate in setting up and running nurse led HF clinics
• Prescribe appropriate medications as a non-medical prescriber, and adjust and advise on treatment changes, continually evaluating the quality of patients care

Working for our organisation

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Are you looking for an exciting role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.
For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.
We look forward to your application.
Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Person specification

Experience

• significant experience in specialist cardiac area at band 6

Qualifications

• Bsc Nursing
• non medical prescriber
• specialist cardiac course

Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.

Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.